For over ten years we have invited prominent personalities to preach at the Old High Church during the summer. The services take place at 8pm on dates which are advertised. It is an opportunity for Christians throughout Inverness to hear well-known names and to worship together in the original parish church of Inverness.

2010 Preachers

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2 MAY The Rt Rev Bill Hewitt, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (as part of his official visit to Inverness Presbytery)

11 JULY Dr Donald Smith, Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre at the Netherbow, Edinburgh will explore the importance of stories

22 AUGUST The Rev Professor John Riches, emeritus Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow, and founder of Malawi Kitchen, challenging churches to sell 90kg of rice so that a farmer can send his child to secondary school for a year

19 SEPTEMBER The Rev Dr Doug Gay, hymnwriter, Greenbelt speaker and Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Glasgow, who will reflect on 'new expressions of Church' and the challenges of mission today

Previous speakers:

2009

Rev Graham Blount, former Scottish Churches Parliamentary Officer

Elaine Duncan, Chief Executive of the Scottish Bible Society

Rev Douglas Galbraith, liturgist, musician and hymn writer

Harry Reid, former editor of the Herald newspaper, author of 'Outside Verdict: An Old Kirk in a New Scotland', and 'Reformation: The Dangerous Birth of the Modern World'

2008

Rev Albert Bogle, Bo’ness: St Andrew’s and convenor of Church Without Walls group

Rt Rev David Lunan, Moderator of the General Assembly

Very Rev Finlay Macdonald, Principal Clerk of the General Assembly

Rt Rev Mark Strange, Episcopal Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness

2007

Rt.Rev. Sheilagh Kesting, Moderator of the General Assembly

Rev Ewan Aitken, former Leader of Edinburgh City Council

Sir Tom Farmer, entrepreneur and philanthropist

2006

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Edinburgh and St Andrew’s

The Rev Fergus MacDonald, formerly of the National Bible Society of Scotland

Morag Mylne, Convenor of the Church and Society Council

2005

The Rev Peter Neilson, Convenor of 'Church Without Walls’

The Rev. Colin G Mclntosh, Minister of Dunblane Cathedral.

James Campbell, Chief Executive, Blythswood Care

2004

Rt. Rev. James Simpson, former Moderator of the General Assembly

Rev Margaret Forrester, minister of Edinburgh: St Margaret’s

Rt. Rev Peter Moran, Roman Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen

2003

Rev Maxwell Craig, Action Together of Churches in Scotland

2002

Rev Dr David Fergusson, Professor of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

Rev Noel Due, Highland Theological College

Juliet Austin, Kilgraston School

2001

Very Rev Andrew McLellan, former Moderator of the General Assembly

Father John Fitzimmons, theologian and broadcaster

Rev Johnston MacKay, broadcaster

Rev Ronald G MacKay, minister of the Free North Church Inverness

2000

Rev Jackie Ross, founder of Blythswood Care

Ian Templeton, Glenalmond College

Rt. Rev John Crook, Episcopal Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness

Rev Susan Brown, minister of Dornoch Cathedral

1999

Rev Robert Sloan, Crathie Church

Dr Alison Elliot, Convenor of the Church and Naition Committee

Rev Prof. Donald MacLeod, Free Church College Edinburgh

Cardinal Thomas Winning, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Edinburgh

1998

Very Rev. Gilleasbuig MacMillan, minister of Edinburgh: St Giles’Cathedral

Canon Kenyon Wright, Scottish Constitutional Convention

George Verwer, Operation Mobilisation

Donnie Munro, Runrig

1997

Rev Ken MacDonald, Free Church of Scotland

Lord MacKay of Clashfern

Rev Charles Robertson, minster of Edinburgh: Canongate Kirk

Rt. Rev Alexander MacDonald, Moderator of the General Assembly

1996

Rev Norman Drummond

Rev Eric Cram, Scottish Churches Industrial Mission

Most Rev Richard Holloway, Episcopal Bishop of Edinburgh

Rt Rev Mario Conti, Roman Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen and convenor of Action Together of Churches in Scotland